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أَصْلَفُ ذ Hard, applied to a place; and so [the fem.] ↓ صَلْفَآءُ applied to land (أَرْض): (S, O:) or both signify hard ground (M, K) containing stones; (M;) or hard and rugged ground; (As, O;) and the pl. is صَلَافٍ, (M, O, K, * [in the last, erroneously, صَلَافِى, and in the O, correctly, الصَّلَافِى, being made determinate,]) thus pluralized in the same manner as صَحْرَآء because the quality of a subst. is predominant therein, (M,) and [for the same reason] أَصَالِفُ also; (O, K;) [the former pl. of صلفآء, and the latter of اصلف:] or ↓ صَلْفَآء (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K) and ↓ صِلْفَآء , [each, app., with tenween, the latter because of the measure فِعْلَآء, and each because receiving the affix ة, for it is added,] and likewise ↓ صَلْفَآءَةٌ (K) and ↓ صِلْفَآءَةٌ , (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K,) rugged, hard ground: (K:) or a smooth rock, or a hard, smooth, bare rock, even with the ground. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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